Brighton & Hove Vocational Services

If you are local then many of you will know there has been a major review of Vocational Services in the City during the past year. If you have the time please consider taking the following short survey to help inform the process.
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Single parents will be expected to look for work when their child reaches 12 – rather than the current age of 16 – under new government plans published today. A long-awaited reportinto state welfare provision, by Sir David Freud, a City banker, was launched Monday morning. It proposes offering benefit claimants in-house care for three years after they find work but also calls for more private and voluntary sector involvement in getting people off benefits and into work, offering “bounty” payments for placing the long-term jobless in employment and making sure they stay in work.

TV contests humiliate losers, say synod speakersMembers of the Church of England laid into a range of television programmes from Big Brother and Strictly Come Dancing to Little Britain for lowering standards of behaviour and exploiting the humiliation of human beings